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The question can be solved trivially easily by just using a big-hammer approach of banning any transfer of personal information to US, period. There are no rea
by trasz 5y ago
The question can be solved trivially easily by just using a big-hammer approach of banning any transfer of personal information to US, period. There are no reasons for allowing the transfer to happen, other than making it easier for Facebook to make money. FB would implement it by only storing interactions involving any EU nationals in EU.
We do want to make it easier for Facebook for political reasons, though, and it's still not particularly hard: just declare that only the data/conversations involving US citizens can be stored on US servers.
- bryan_w 5y agoAre you saying that an American shouldn't be able to pull up the profile of an EU user? Seems a bit extreme.
- trasz 5y agoOf course not; the data would come from FB's EU servers. The "transfer" above applies to where the data is stored, not where it can be accessed from. From the users point of view the only change would be... nothing; the latency is already at the point where it wouldn't incur any observable penalty.